Workshop on handling sensitivity issues in scientific and medical collections, 17 July 2017
The day long workshop was hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on Monday 17 July 2017. The event was well attended and a report on the proceedings can be found below along with copies of the morning's case study presentations. The afternoon session consisted of practical group work, where delegates were split into groups to discuss questions surround the issues of sensitivity in archives. The images of the posters along with the summary posters are also available on the link below, via Padlet, the bulletin board software platform.
Workshop programme and reports:
Report of the proceedings of the sensitivity workshop
Case Studies:
Case Study_1_Sensitivity in an era of Open Science
Case Study_2_To the Crick! Moving home after 100 years
Case Study_3_Protecting patients, respecting researchers – case note cataloguing at LHSA
Case Study_4_Pathways to Research
Case Study_5_Laboratories, lawyers and love letters_diverse sensitivities in scientific collections
Case Study_7_ALSPAC Administrative Archives Project
LSHTM_Case Study_8_The Whitehall Study_Sensitive records within a longitudinal health survey
Workshop session:
Poster display of group work conducted at sensitivity workshop